Original was 'Attorney General Bonta Releases New Firearms Data to Increase Transparency and Information Sharing'. They absolutely leaked data by failing to secure it properly via tableau, but the headline as written here implies that this was done deliberately. I looked at it last night, you wouldn't have known about it unless you were digging through the page source looking for ways to scrape it.
Negligent at best, possibly deliberate at worst. But that doesn't justify the false impression created by this headline.
Nope, you're wrong. Each tableau dashboard component also had a link to download the underlying source data. You didn't have to even go through the html page source, it was readily available via standard tableau functionality. After it was discovered that the underlying data included PII information, they underlying data was replaced with a csv file missing that data. The csv file even said like "full data - copy.csv". Whether or not they meant to do it, that's open to interpretation. But my headline was accurate.
Thanks for the information about how the data was leaking. But why I disagree with you on the headline is the attribution of intentionality to the leak.
Bonta is ultimately responsible as he's head of the AG's office, but the not-unreasonable premise of the page was just publishing longitudinal statistical data. Unless litigation reveals he asked the front-end devs to make it happen, it's negligent rather than deliberate.
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Bullshit headline edit
Original was 'Attorney General Bonta Releases New Firearms Data to Increase Transparency and Information Sharing'. They absolutely leaked data by failing to secure it properly via tableau, but the headline as written here implies that this was done deliberately. I looked at it last night, you wouldn't have known about it unless you were digging through the page source looking for ways to scrape it.
Negligent at best, possibly deliberate at worst. But that doesn't justify the false impression created by this headline.
Nope, you're wrong. Each tableau dashboard component also had a link to download the underlying source data. You didn't have to even go through the html page source, it was readily available via standard tableau functionality. After it was discovered that the underlying data included PII information, they underlying data was replaced with a csv file missing that data. The csv file even said like "full data - copy.csv". Whether or not they meant to do it, that's open to interpretation. But my headline was accurate.
Thanks for the information about how the data was leaking. But why I disagree with you on the headline is the attribution of intentionality to the leak.
Bonta is ultimately responsible as he's head of the AG's office, but the not-unreasonable premise of the page was just publishing longitudinal statistical data. Unless litigation reveals he asked the front-end devs to make it happen, it's negligent rather than deliberate.